activities
ACTIVITIES
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What is Processed Food? (30 min.)
Sugar in Our Body (35 min.)
Food Choice (40 min.)
Decolonize Your Diet Discussion Questions (25 min.)
SAMPLE AGENDA
TIME: 2 hours and 45 min.
Welcome (5 min.)
Review the overview (15 min.)
Watch (19 min.)
• Marketing Food to Kids | Anna Lappé
• Grow Food | Appetite for Change
Do (1 hour 45 min.)
• What is Processed Food? (30 min.)
• Sugar in Our Body (35 min.)
• Food Choice (40 min.)
Discuss (15 min.)
• In what ways does Your Food Story impact your nutrition?
• Were there foods in your food story that are seen as less nutritious? What were they?
• In your experience, what sort of foods are being advertised towards people your age?
• What are some examples of food advertising that are geared towards people your age?
• What strategies did they use?
• Characters or celebrities in the advertisements, placement of the advertisements
(near schools, or commercials during popular television shows), etc. ?
• What are some of the challenges people face in changing their diet?
Debrief, Closing (5 min.)
Activity from FoodSpan Learning’s “Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture” 2016,
accessed November 11, 2018
NOTES
Kovacic, W. e. (2008). Marketing food to children and adolescents: A review of industry expenditures, activities, and
self-regulation: A Federal Trade Commission report to Congress. Federal Trade Commission.
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Harris J, Frazier W, Kumanyika S, Ramirez A. Increasing disparities in unhealthy food advertising targeted to Hispanic and
Black youth. Rudd Report. January 2019.
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C.L. Ogden, M.D. Carroll, B.K. Kit, and K.M. Flegal, “Prevalence of childhood and adult obesity in the United States,
2011–2012,” American Medical Association 311, no. 8 (2014): 806–814.
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Luz Calvo, “Decolonize Your Diet: Luz Calvo and Catriona R. Esquibel | Ep. 22” Real Food Reads, July 2018, accessed August
2018. https://soundcloud.com/realfoodmedia/decolonize-your-diet-luz-calvo-and-catriona-r-esquibel-ep-22
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